The Complementary Relationship Between the Emotional State and the Function of the Ileum in a Human Subject

HENRY HARRISON SADLER and ALINE UNDERHILL ORTENAuthors Info & Affiliations

Publication: American Journal of Psychiatry

Volume 124, Number 10

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.10.1375

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Correlation of the emotional state with the motor and biochemical activity of an isolated segment of ileum in a human subject was observed. Motor activity was increased with arousal and decreased in slates of withdrawal. Both the emotional slate and the motor activity of the ileum were related to the total adaptation of the organism. As judged by the rates of absorption of 18 individual amino acids, there is confirmation of Engel's finding that in depression-withdrawal physiological alterations occur at the cellular level, even in this isolated segment of small intestine.

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American Journal of Psychiatry

Volume 124 • Number 10 • April 1968

Pages: 1375 - 1384

PubMed: 5643655

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Published in print: April 1968

Published online: 1 April 2006

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HENRY HARRISON SADLER

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ALINE UNDERHILL ORTEN

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Associate clinical professor of psychiatry, associate dean, and chief of the psychiatric liaison service at the University of California Medical Center, San Francisco, Calif. 94122

Assistant professor of medicine at Wayne State University

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The Complementary Relationship Between the Emotional State and the Function of the Ileum in a Human Subject

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